Part V Leading beyond Authority
If convening power is the ability to attract and gather people around you by having something to say that is worth listening to, then leading beyond authority is the ability to turn those ideas into action without the need for formal or positional power. It is leadership defined by personality, not role or job title, and gives you permission to operate across the organisation in pursuit of shared goals. And, as Julia Middleton observes, in this space “Nothing happens without networks”.1
Most leaders have an inner network, their team or department, where they have formal and positional authority to lead; an outer network, the wider organisation, where their formal authority gradually ...
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